An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.